• Birth: Herdecke, Germany
• Marital Status: married , one child

• Abitur, Schiller-Gymnasium Witten, 1995
• Diploma in Psychology, Major Field: Neuropsychology and Biopsychology, Ruhr University Bochum, 2003
• Ph.D. in Psychology, University of Hamburg, 2009

• Student research assistant, Department of Psychology, Ruhr University Bochum, 1999-2003
• Student research assistant, Institute of Cognitive Neuroscience, Ruhr University Bochum, 2002-2003
• Graduate research assistant, Institute of Cognitive Neuroscience, Ruhr University Bochum, 2003-2004
• Ph.D. student, Department of Neurophysiology and Pathophysiology, University Hospital Hamburg-Eppendorf, University of Hamburg, 2004-2008
• Post-Doctoral Fellow, Department of Neurophysiology and Pathophysiology, University Hospital Hamburg-Eppendorf, University of Hamburg, 2009-present

• Practical Courses in Physiology, Department for Neurophysiology and Pathophysiology, University Hospital Hamburg-Eppendorf, University of Hamburg, 2004-present
• Seminars in General Psychology (Learning & Memory), Department of Psychology, University  of Hamburg, 2005-present

• Interaction of Emotion and Attention
• Multisensory processes in perception and memory
• Visual, auditory and tactile object identification
• Source localization of EEG activity

Reviewer for:
• Journal of Neurophysiology
• Experimental Brain Research
• Experimental Psychology
• Cognition
• Brain & Language

[Affiliations]

• Member of the Deutsche Gesellschaft fuer Psychologie
  (German Society of Psychology)
• Member of the Society for Psychophysiological Research